Hines has previously made some harsh statements about antiracists calling for medievalists to retire the use of the term "Anglo-Saxon"https://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1311362117195509761 …
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Tonight he will examine "How valid is it to see the Anglo-Saxon period as a coherent entity." and whether it is valid to describe the period using this term. He notes that he was reluctant to "fan the flames" of this controversy. Begins with Bede's account.
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Examines the development of the term "English" and "Angle" in both Latin and Old English. Notes that these terms were usually plural, and argues for them reflecting group identity.pic.twitter.com/Z5I2VAaXlh
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Hines examining the possible derivation of the term "Angle," possibly as a reference to a placename representing the original homeland of the Angles. Argues for linguistic "fingerprints" allowing tracing of these names across time and space.
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Discussing the famous story of Pope Gregory and the Angles, considering how Gregory formed his Latinate version of "Angle" as "Angli." (None of this, to be clear, is about the term "Anglo-Saxon", which Bede and Gregory never used)
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Continuing with discussion of terminology. Hines is making no distinction between these various terms.pic.twitter.com/BDwYCkQyLc
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Again, this discussion of treaties and gold seems unclearly related to terminology discussions, and only continues to demonstrate the overwhelming evidence that variations of "English/Angle" were preferred by the early medieval English.pic.twitter.com/xRAvw8fS3E
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Notes that even groups who may have thought of themselves as Saxons likely thought of their language as "English."
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Hines argues that Battle of Maldon never once refers to anyone as English, but in a variety of local identities. Identity even at this late period was fluid.
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He has no explanation but he constantly uses English to describe them too.
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